[House  of  Representativks.] 

HOUSE  OF  RErRESENTATIVES,  December  19,  1864.-Refer- 

red  to  Committee  on  Foreign  Affairs  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

[By  Mr.  F.  W.  Bruce.] 

A    RESOLUTIOIS. 


1  Resolved,  That  in  the  Of  inion  of  this  House,  the  people  of 

2  the  United  States  know  full  woil  that  the   people  of  the  Con- 

3  federate  States  are,  and   have  always  l)een,  willing  to  make 

4  peace  with  them  on  fair  and  honorable   terms,  based  upoD  the 

5  independence  of   the  Confederate  States— the  only   basis  on 

6  which  the  latter  will  ever  consent  to  a  peace— and    that  it  i& 

7  therefore,  now  useless   for  the  Is  tier  to  make  farther  direct. 

8  overtures  of  peace  to  the  former. 


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